I would love a replacement that is scriptable via AppleScript. For example: chop a long video with sound into three 3-minute duration pieces taken from the beginning, middle, and end; insert two 30-second existing clips between the pieces; recombine them all into one 10-minute video; delete soundtracks; apply an existing 10-minute soundtrack to the whole video; do that to a folder of videos.

QuickTime 7 does this kind of thing pretty well, and I haven't yet found anything else that will. Aren't computers supposed to get more useful as technology progresses? :|

Adding to my post about VidCutter, it works on original media types, no transcoding required. Since it skips transcoding, it is supposed to be really fast (presuming it can open the media you want to cut/clip).

This link is hugely valuable! Thank you, Ric, for finding and posting, and thanks to Eclectic Light Co. for posting. I have probably hundreds of video clips embedded in Keynote presentations, plus all their original (unembedded) source clips. So this will be an important "rainy-day" task sometime before the next major macOS "upgrade."

It would be nice if someone (Apple?) created a utility to perform these multi-step "search-and-convert" functions for no-longer-supported video... as a batch.

After all, this is not merely deprecation of apps or of a system function, but a wholesale, instant, and largely unannounced, deprecation of user files which will no longer run in the next macOS.

While the Dosdude1 Sierra patch tool is a fine way to run Sierra on an older machine, I found to my surprise that on my patched Mac Pro 3,1 SIP had been turned off. Whether this was the result of using the Sierra patcher or not I don’t know - I certainly don’t remember turning SIP off.

So I thought I’d just boot in recovery mode and use Terminal to re-enable SIP but found that, although the computer is running Sierra and has updated and did install the latest security patch, it won’t boot the recovery disk, saying that Sierra is not compatible with my Mac.

So my question is… is there a way to re-enable SIP? I’d sure feel better using the machine with than without.

While the Dosdude1 Sierra patch tool is a fine way to run Sierra on an older machine, I found to my surprise that on my patched Mac Pro 3,1 SIP had been turned off. Whether this was the result of using the Sierra patcher or not I don’t know - I certainly don’t remember turning SIP off....

Hello, Louis. There was a discussion long time ago about SIP and Dosdude1’s patcher. Dosdude1’s patcher disables SIP in order for the macOS to work. If one enables SIP on such a patched Mac, the Mac won’t work. One can read the threads for Sierra, High Sierra, and Mojave for unsupported Macs in MacRumors. Hope this helps explain why SIP is disabled for you.

Hello, Louis. There was a discussion long time ago about SIP and Dosdude1’s patcher. Dosdude1’s patcher disables SIP in order for the macOS to work. If one enables SIP on such a patched Mac, the Mac won’t work. One can read the threads for Sierra, High Sierra, and Mojave for unsupported Macs in MacRumors. Hope this helps explain why SIP is disabled for you.

Thank you, Richard, I'm sad to say, searching MacRumors' site using the term "Sierra, High Sierra, and Mojave for unsupported Macs" yields nothing. However, thank you, I see that I'm at a dead end so must pursue some other solution. Sad to abandon a dogonne good functional Mac Pro for lack of security support.

Thank you, Richard, I'm sad to say, searching MacRumors' site using the term "Sierra, High Sierra, and Mojave for unsupported Macs" yields nothing. However, thank you, I see that I'm at a dead end so must pursue some other solution. Sad to abandon a dogonne good functional Mac Pro for lack of security support.

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Problem:
When running macOS 10.14.3 or earlier, you encounter an error reporting dyld: Library not loaded, following which a dylib is named, along the lines of libswift[…].dylib. This occurs when you launch a command tool or app, or perhaps when a script or app might be launching a command tool.

Thank you, Richard, I'm sad to say, searching MacRumors' site using the term "Sierra, High Sierra, and Mojave for unsupported Macs" yields nothing. However, thank you, I see that I'm at a dead end so must pursue some other solution. Sad to abandon a dogonne good functional Mac Pro for lack of security support.

Forget SIP - consider yourself lucky to actually have macOS running on your old beastie. Other security methods are working. Craft an "emergency booter" external drive (or a second internal drive). Or abandon macOS and run Linux or Windows; the former is quite secure, as long as you get your software through the official repositories; the latter is... well... not as secure but not bad.

page and, of course, knowing the name of the codec(!), should help you search your system for any of this deprecated media.

Do this before the macOS 10.15 nagging begins in the Fall so you have conversion options. There are many apps that can do the conversion (the free MPEG Streamclip comes to mind) so put this on your calendar well before it hits the fan.

page and, of course, knowing the name of the codec(!), should help you search your system for any of this deprecated media.

Do this before the macOS 10.15 nagging begins in the Fall so you have conversion options. There are many apps that can do the conversion (the free MPEG Streamclip comes to mind) so put this on your calendar well before it hits the fan.

I'm not positive either, but as a cross-platform open source product (Mac, Windows and Linux), I doubt it could rely on proprietary Apple libraries. QT7 might still be available for Windows, but it was never available for Linux.

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I'm not positive either, but as a cross-platform open source product (Mac, Windows and Linux), I doubt it could rely on proprietary Apple libraries. QT7 might still be available for Windows, but it was never available for Linux.

Part of the reason that several of those are on the list is because they are either abandoned or pragmatically abandoned codecs (often proprietary ones).

For example, Sorenson went Chapter 11 last year. Apple's royalty check wasn't keeping them awash with money, and open source isn't particularly going to solve that problem (the folks who bought the assets probably are out to milk the cow on the intellectual property).

RealVideo (RealPlayer) is on very thin ice. (A 'better than H.264' codec had some leverage before built-in hardware support for H.265/HEVC. Now... it is proprietary encoding with less leverage.)

Avid isn't going bankrupt, but also probably not giving away their codec either. There's a pretty decent chance Apple was paying them a licensing fee, which may not make sense (for Apple) anymore as a 'free' bundle for high-volume Mac users.

Where these encodings are stored into files with different extensions (xxxxyyy ccc codec in .xyz), any of the decent filename searchers with wildcard matching should work - '*.xyz' or '.xyz'. That could be wrapped up in a GUI menu-driven system, but there's not a big gap to access the metadata now.

Well, Rosetta removal was, indeed, a pain, though somehow I remember it being announced (but maybe I'm wrong).

In today's case, however, it's not apps that are being deprecated; it's user-created/modified files. More akin (I think) to Apple's decision to deprecate old-version ClarisWorks / AppleWorks files when Apple abandoned those apps and switched to Pages. Thankfully, LibreOffice still (!) handles those old formats. I'm wondering how I'll handle all those embedded videos when QT7 formats are no longer readable by Apple's video software.